Final Engineering Experiment

What a wonderful experiment this has been for all!

May 21-25

It's hard to believe this is our last full week of Kindergarten.  Where did this year go?!  These last days will be full of fun times as we continue to read together, learn together, and take part in some exciting activities like Super Team Day coming up this Friday, May 25.

Everyone did great with our guest teacher last week, as I knew they would.  It's definitely great to be back though and we've got another packed week ahead of us.  Here's a sneak peak.

Reading:

• Phonics: reviewing short vowels: a, e, i, o, u
• High-Frequency Words: review review review!
• Writing more personal narratives (as a whole group)
• Working on word choice and voice in writing
• Robust Vocabulary: dare, gleaming, splendid, cautiously, festival, disaster, adventure, explore, tame, amazed, completely, jolt
• Continuing to work on drawing conclusions and making inferences
• Reviewing main idea and the beginning, middle, and end of stories
• Independently writing letters of advice to next years Kindergarteners

Math:

• Finishing up chapter 12 (subtraction)
• Going outside to measure things found in nature

Science:

• Completing our last LEGO engineering experiment.

Have a great week!

Mr. T

May 14-18

Reading:

• Word Building: reviewing short vowels: a, e, i, o, u
• High-Frequency Words: review review review!
• Writing personal narratives
• Working on word choice and voice in writing
• Robust Vocabulary: tame, amazed, completely, jolt, adventure, explore
• Reading: A Mouse Told His Mother by Bethany Roberts and Igor, The Bird Who Couldn't Sing by Satoshi Kitamura
• Working on drawing conclusions and making inferences

Math:

• Starting Chapter 12: Subtraction

I will be at Wolf Ridge with the fourth graders this week.  Shirley Reinert will be in for me all week.  She's amazing and the students love her!  They will be in good hands!  If you have questions or end of the day changes, please let the office know so they can let Shirley know as email access for myself will be limited.

Have a great week!

Mr. T

May 7-11

Sorry for the delay on this.  Here's the breakdown for the remainder of the week.

Reading:

• Word Building: -ug, -up
• High-Frequency Words: review review review
• Writing thank-you notes
• Working on word choice when writing
• Robust Vocabulary: dare, gleaming, splendid, cautiously, festival, disaster
• Reading: I Wish I Were A Pilot by Stella Blackstone and The Kite Festival by Leyla Tarres
• Differentiating between fantasy and reality stories

Math:

• Chapter 11: Addition
• 11.6: Use Pictures to Add
• Objective: to use pictures to complete addition sentences
• 11.7: Addition Stories
• Objective: to create and act out addition stories using objects
• 11.8: Problem Solving Strategy: Make a Model
• Objective: to use the problem solving strategy "make a model" to solve problems

• Key Terms: add, in all, how many, plus, is equal to

Thanks and have a great rest of the week!

Remember, no school on Friday.

Engineering Excellence

April 30-May 4

The breakdown for the first week of May!

Reading:

• Letters: Qq
• High-Frequency Words: that, have
• Writing invitations
• Reviewing main idea
• Robust Vocabulary Review: hollow, scurry, watchful, cling, defend, ravenous, lively, peek, arise, clever, quarrel, boastful
• Rereading Good Morning, Little Polar Bear by Carol Votaw and Whose House? by Barbara Sueling
• Focusing on the organization of our writing

Math:

• Chapter 11: Addition
• 11.4: Use Pictures to Add
• Objective:to use pictures to solve addition problems
• 11.5: Add With Money
• Objective:to use objects to solve addition problems
• 11.6:Addition Problems
• Objective:To use pictures to complete addition sentences

• Key Terms: add, in all, how many, how many is equal to

Science:

• Finally Designing classroom collage containing various animals that reside in Minnesota (Should be really cool-watch for pictures!)

 Have a wonderful week!  Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

April 23-27

Here we are heading into our last full week of April.  Can you believe it?  We'll just keep on cruisin' in K-1!  I'm so impressed by the reading skills every student has developed due to their passion and excitement, which so much of can be related back to their parents!  Thank you for reading at home and promoting the importance of everything we do here at school.  We should all be proud!

Here's what we're covering this week.

Reading:

• Phonograms: -un, -ut
• High-Frequency Words: give, little
• Writing friendly letters
• Using story structure and details to understand and respond to stories.
• Robust Vocabulary: lively, peek, arise, clever, boastful, quarrel
• Reading Good Morning, Little Polar Bear by Carol Votaw and Clever Tortoise by Francesca Martin

Math:

• Chapter 11: Addition
• 11.1: Problem Solving Strategies: Acting Out Addition Problems
• Objective: To use the problem solving strategy "act it out" to solve problems.
• 11.2: Modeling Addition
• Objective: To use concrete object to solve addition problems
• 11.3:  Addition Patterns:
• Objective: To model and draw addition patterns

• Key Terms: in all, how many, add, is equal to, plus, one more

Science:

• Continuing to observe our classroom fish (we unfortunately lost five our of fish friends are down to one strong-minded guppy!) and compare fish to mammals. 
• Designing classroom collage containing various animals that reside in Minnesota
• LEGO Engineering: creating LEGO hockey players that are able to shoot a LEGO puck

 Have a wonderful week!  Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

Mr. T